# Looting and the 2024 election? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 28, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805 "2023-09-28T04:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/121 "2023-10-13T17:47:38Z")
Those Dollar Tree type stores deal in a lot of cash as opposed to credit cards. That makes them attractive to a certain kind of burglary. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/122 "2023-10-14T05:27:34Z")
I believe you mean _ **robbery** _ in that sentence. /nitpick ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/123 "2023-10-14T06:02:39Z")
Damnit, I knew I should have just said theft. šŸ™‚ Thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/124 "2023-10-20T22:47:27Z")
Was in a Home Depot about a year ago. All checked out and leaving with my bag of parts for whatever I was working on. Followed a guy out that had a very expensive saw in his cart. He would not stop for the receipt checker, got out of the store, abandoned the cart and ran. Receipt checker sighed and started to wheel cart back in the store. We chatted for a minute. I was right there. Could have been a witness. Iā€™m not going to get into a fight or anything. I would try to protect the receipt checker though if she was attacked. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/125 "2023-10-20T23:42:15Z")
Boy the MAGAs are really harping on the wave or looting anarchy. And locally, they blame the DG, Gascon for it. One thing that gets me is when the Police report some perp has been arrested and released on bali, they call it ā€œGascons catch and releaseā€, not realizing the Bail is a Constitutional Right (in most cases). Morons. They think they are patriots when they dont even know their own Bill of Rights. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/126 "2023-10-20T23:51:28Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > they dont even know their own Bill of Rights. Wasnā€™t there a situation a while ago where a Public Radio station celebrated July 4 by reading the Declaration of Independence, and got complaints that they were too lefty for reading that woke nonsense? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/127 "2023-10-21T01:28:24Z")
NPR reads it on July 4 every year. > **[An NPR Tradition, Here's The Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence](https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1011754245/an-npr-tradition-heres-the-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence)** > > Over the past 32 years, Morning Edition has broadcast a reading of the Declaration of Independence by NPR staff as a way of marking Independence Day. This year, we also offer some historical context. But in 2017 they were attacked by Trump supporters for tweeting about it. > **[Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted ā€˜propaganda.ā€™ It was the...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/05/some-trump-supporters-thought-npr-tweeted-propaganda-it-was-the-declaration-of-independence/)** > > Some Twitter users reacted angrily to the thread, accusing NPR of spamming them or pushing an agenda. And in 2021 they were attacked for commenting on some of the outdated language in it. > **[NPR faces backlash after criticizing Declaration of Independence](https://nypost.com/2021/07/05/npr-criticizes-declaration-of-independence/amp/)** > > NPR is facing a wave of backlash after criticizing the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July ā€” saying the document has ā€œflaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/128 "2023-10-29T01:29:50Z")
Thereā€™s definitely a story circulating about pastors who preached things like Jesusā€™ Sermon on the Mount, and getting chastised for being ā€œwoke.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/129 "2023-10-29T02:29:02Z")
Hereā€™s an earlier post of mine on that subject. > [@Please explain Lauren Boebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-lauren-boebert/990163/117): > > From an NPR interview with Russell Moore, a former top official in the Southern Baptist Convention: > > > It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching ā€” ā€œturn the other cheekā€ ā€” [and] to have someone come up after to say, ā€œWhere did you get those liberal talking points?ā€ And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ā€œIā€™m literally quoting Jesus Christ,ā€ the response would not be, ā€œI apologize.ā€ The response would be, ā€œYes, but that doesnā€™t work anymore. Thatā€™s weak.ā€ And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then weā€™re in a crisis. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805/130 "2023-10-30T10:31:12Z")
[The NPR interview with Russell Moore](https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looting-and-the-2024-election/990805.md?page=6)